Assignments
44
ISSUES
: Abortion
Index/Acknowled e
Acknowledgements
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Illustrations
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Additional acknowledgements
Editorial on behalf of Independence Educational
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With thanks to the Independence team: Mary Chapman,
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Cara Acred
Cambridge
September 2016
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 1
human rights 35, 36
and restrictions 11, 34
Ireland 34
see also
Northern Ireland
Latin America 15, 24, 25
law 30
see also
abortion
legislation
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1
Offences Against the Person Act 13, 25, 26
Serious Crime Bill 31
see also
Abortion Act 1967
Marie Stopes UK 6
medical abortion 6, 24
drones for pills 23
early 3, 10
late 3
prevalence 2
men 37–8, 39
mental health 1, 27
and emotional responses 4
microcephaly 24
midwives 12, 20–1, 27, 28–9
mothers 10
Netherlands 14
NHS 2, 3, 4, 11, 16, 21
Northern Ireland 11, 12, 14, 35–6
see also
Ireland
Offences Against the Person Act 1861 13
and archaism 13
and restrictions 25, 26
pain 3, 7
Pakistan 22
Poland 14, 23–4
Portugal 14
premature babies 26
pro-choice abortion movements 16
pro-life abortion movements 8–9, 12, 16, 23, 32
and gender selection 31–2
and late abortion 28, 32
and travel abroad for abortion 32–3
and unviable foetuses to term 35, 36
PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) 17–18
rape 15, 31
religion 4, 8–9, 12, 15, 21
Robinson, Peter 36
Russia 14
Scotland 2, 11–12, 21, 32–3, 39
secularism 15
Serious Crime Bill 31
social care 19
Spain 14
stigma 13
stress 17–18
suction abortion 2, 3, 6
surgical abortion
D&E 2, 3, 6–7
vacuum aspiration 2, 3, 6
teenagers and adolescents 1, 5, 13
UN 24–5
Uruguay 15
USA 14–15, 32
vacuum aspiration abortion 2, 3, 6
Wales 1, 10
Zika virus 24, 25
